7 January, or Saint Raymond of Penyafort, Priest

First reading

1 John 3:22-4:6

Whatever we ask God,we shall receive,because we keep his commandmentsand live the kind of life that he wants.His commandments are these:that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christand that we love one anotheras he told us to.Whoever keeps his commandmentslives in God and God lives in him.We know that he lives in usby the Spirit that he has given us.

It is not every spirit, my dear people, that you can trust;test them, to see if they come from God,there are many false prophets, now, in the world.You can tell the spirits that come from God by this:every spirit which acknowledges that Jesus the Christ has come in the fleshis from God;but any spirit which will not say this of Jesusis not from God,but is the spirit of Antichrist,whose coming you were warned about.Well, now he is here, in the world.Children,you have already overcome these false prophets,because you are from God and you have in youone who is greater than anyone in this world;as for them, they are of the world,and so they speak the language of the worldand the world listens to them.But we are children of God,and those who know God listen to us;those who are not of God refuse to listen to us.This is how we can tellthe spirit of truth from the spirit of falsehood.

Psalm or canticle

Psalm 2:7-8,10-11

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Gospel

Matthew 4:12-17,23-25

Hearing that John had been arrested, Jesus went back to Galilee, and leaving Nazareth he went and settled in Capernaum, a lakeside town on the borders of Zebulun and Naphtali. In this way the prophecy of Isaiah was to be fulfilled:‘Land of Zebulun! Land of Naphtali!Way of the sea on the far side of Jordan,Galilee of the nations!The people that lived in darkness has seen a great light;on those who dwell in the land and shadow of deatha light has dawned.’

From that moment Jesus began his preaching with the message, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is close at hand.’He went round the whole of Galilee teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the Good News of the kingdom and curing all kinds of diseases and sickness among the people. His fame spread throughout Syria, and those who were suffering from diseases and painful complaints of one kind or another, the possessed, epileptics, the paralysed, were all brought to him, and he cured them. Large crowds followed him, coming from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judaea and Transjordania.

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